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Eugene -Springfield Area Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan 6. Appendices Mitigation Action Item Progress Report Form (From 2014) • • • • From Date: 02-2015 To Date: 02-2020 #25: Downed Power Lines • Eugene Water and Electric Board Jeannine Parisi ❑ Project Completed ® Project Restructured ❑ Project Canceled ❑ Project delayed: ❑ Project On Schedule Anticipated Completion Date: TBD Summary of Project Progress 1. What was accomplished for this project during this reporting period (2015 2020)? EWEB was successfully awarded FEMA grant funds to re -frame 4.3 miles of electric line and underground 1.5 miles of distribution services in over a dozen high outage areas across Eugene. In most cases, EWEB will reconfigure and replace older overhead power lines that require two wires and replace them with new, higher capacity cable that requires only one wire. This reduces brown -outs when a tree limb falls on one wire and allows for the removal of crossarms, which are susceptible to falling tree limbs and a common culprit causing outages. Overall project costs are estimated at $2.7M with FEMA grant funding about 75% of those costs. The first projects will being in 2019. 2. What obstacles, problems, or delays did the project encounter? Coordination to correlate priority transportation routes with high priority distribution feeds did not occur and may not align with where electric feeds to service critical loads are located. The latter is of higher importance and focus to the utility in terms of mitigating risks from prolonged outages. 3. If uncompleted, is the project still relevant? Should the project be changed or revised? Reducing outages by hardening and reconfiguring our transmission and distribution system is highly important. This mitigation item could be broadened 6-91 January 2020